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California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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That law is impossible to follow and moronic.
You can't prevent a new unknown designs to be printed, and my guess is those are pretty trivial to make. And there is guaranteed to be workarounds too. This is just enshittification by law.
My guess is that this law will not pass.
Reread the first 5 words of the headline.
Sigh....
Now read a little further:
But I can see the people upvoting you didn't do that either. Sigh....
It's not my fault the headline is stupid and misleading. It has only passed 1 step out of 3.
Yep. That's not just a stupid headline. It's flat out wrong.
Exactly
It'll pass, it just won't matter outside of California and the corporate entities 3D printing there.
You can still print guns out of your heavily modified Ender 9999 covered in a trash bag.